ecofascism is a thing

[lustatopia]

Two mass murders a world apart share a common theme: 'ecofascism'

by Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post

Before the slaughter of dozens of people in Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, Texas this year, the accused gunmen took pains to explain their fury, including their hatred of immigrants. The statements that authorities think the men posted online share another obsession: overpopulation and environmental degradation.

The alleged Christchurch shooter, who is charged with targeting Muslims and killing 51 people in March, declared himself an "eco-fascist" and railed about immigrants' birthrates. The statement linked to the El Paso shooter, who is charged with killing 22 people in a shopping area earlier this month, bemoans water pollution, plastic waste and an American consumer culture that is "creating a massive burden for future generations."

The two mass shootings appear to be extreme examples of ecofascism - what Hampshire College professor emeriti Betsy Hartmann calls "the greening of hate."

Many white supremacists have latched onto environmental themes, drawing connections between the protection of nature and racial exclusion. These ideas have shown themselves to be particularly dangerous when adopted by unstable individuals prone to violence and convinced they must take drastic actions to stave off catastrophe.

The alleged El Paso shooter's document is full of existential despair: "My whole life I have been preparing for a future that currently doesn't exist."....

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/...ers-a-world-apart-share-a-common-14341707.php

 

[oddity83]

Over population is a concern.

 

[lustatopia]

Over population is a concern.

Not really. Not anymore.

We know the solution because the solution is happening now. Educate and liberate women from traditional cultural contingencies. Bring electricity and telecommunications to their villages and provinces. Then, pretty much automatically, women decide to wrest control of their reproductive rights from their menfolk and suddenly they aren't having 8 or 10 kids any more. It's happening all over the world.

Funny that, huh?

Many thinkers on the topic believe the world populations will peak by 2050 and by 2100 will be lower than today.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Climate change is just a symptom of overpopulation.

 

[lustatopia]

Climate change is just a symptom of overpopulation.

Correlation is not causation.

90% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions were driven by 10% of the world's population.

The green movement's historical roots have threads going back to eugenics and Nazi Germany's folk ecology scout groups that included musing around the campfire about the use of genocide as a means to control population in between singing fun happy songs about bunnies and flowers.

Notoriously, a number of quite famous Green leaders have advocated reducing the Earth's population by means one might find, well, extreme. Including Earth First!'s Dave Foreman who advocated letting the Ethiopians starve because that was the natural course of things anyway.

China used its totalitarian power to control population directly. It worked too well. Now China's population is aging and will soon be in decline not to mention out of balance gender-wise.